Human Rights in the Securitization of Cooperation for Development and of Borders and the Toughening of Asylum Policy

Abstract

Forced migration is increasingly seen as one of the consequences of the structural principles of globalization, in particular the crisis of agriculture, the breaking of productive chains by free trade, natural disasters caused by global warming, extreme poverty, and income inequalities. Nevertheless, receiving countries respond to this situation with immigration policies that fail to recognize, or deny, human rights, and neither North America nor the European Union (EU) design policies that could serve to generate conditions for reducing migration flows or maintaining circular migration.